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About the Artist:
Bandau was born in Koln in 1936. He studied at Staatlichen Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, 1957-60. The German sculptor began to produce large watercolours in 1983 using thick Japanese Brushes. He makes slow, precise brushstrokes over a rough surface of the paper. There is the creation of a fine line of water at the edge of the black colour, that will materialize in the process of drying in such a way that it seems to be drawn by a silver pen. The slow forming of layers, that take shape and at the same time oscillate - disolve, are lost, disapear - as appearences between light and darkness are caught in a sublime reality.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2003 Art Association and Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002 Solo Show - Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Fransisco
2001 Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich
Galerie Cora Holzl, Dusseldorf
2000 Galerie Appel und Troschke, Frankfurt
Galerie Renate Schroder, Koln, Cologne
1998 Gallery Appel & Troschke, Frankfurt
1996 Jewish Museum, Berlin
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Art Affairs, Amsterdam
Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich,
1991 Aargauer Art Gallery, Aarau
1990 Museum van Hedendaagse, Antwerp
1985 Galerie Katrin Rabus, Bremen
1978 Karl Enrst Osthaus Museum, Hagen [cat.]
1973 Suermondt Museum, Aachen
1967 Galerie Junge Generation, Hamburg
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003 How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London
2002 Abstract Tendencies , The Drawing Centre, New York
2001 Everything Again?, Urban Gallery Mansion, Zanders Bergisch Gladbach
1999 4 From Germany, Ellipse Kind Center, Arlington; Goethe, Arlington; Goethe-Institut, Washington
1998 Sculpture and Design in the 20th Century, William Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Through a Space Between, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
1997 Eye-Witnesses,The Hanck Collection Art Museum, Duesseldorf
1996 On the way, Academy of Arts, Dresden
1992 Baltic Sea Biennale, Arts Center, Rostock |